Italics not presenting in live aution descriptions

[heatemyfather]

I have used the italic text style option (which uses the <em> html tag, as inserted by the default wysiwyg editor) but the text does not show as italicised in the live listings as it does in the editor. I am not adding any special html tags to style the text myself, the only thing I have inserted is a <hr /> tag above the paragraph in question.

[astral276]

The <em>...</em> tags are likely being overridden by an eBid CSS rule with a higher priority. You could try changing them to <i>...</i> tags or changing the opening <p> tags to:

<p style="font-style:italic;">

[Mountman]

I thought that the em tag in css was the size of font not style. But I maybe wrong

[astral276]

There is a difference between the HTML <em> tag which indicates emphasised text (which most browsers will, by default, display in italics) and the em calculated unit of 'length' used in certain CSS properties (e.g. font-size, margins, etc.). The default behaviour of the HTLM <em> tag can be modified by CSS. This is what I suspect eBid is doing on the listing page but without scouring their CSS files I cannot be certain.